Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Dublin Opening Summary

I am back in London… the experience of exhibiting in Dublin was very fulfilling. The Urban Retreat gallery looks fantastic. It is located at the Ringsend and Grand Canal Dock, a place where the old and new Dublin collide. Daniel Libeskind theather is just in front and the U2 tower will be located in this area too. Local residents include Colin Farrell, the actor, Paul Durcan, the poet, and the current Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader, John Gormley.

The opening was crowded. Critic and press were all favorable.

I was very happy and impressed. The curatorial work was great. There was a plasma screen inside the gallery that was showing all the time views of Cill Rialaig, the inspiring place where I have made my paintings. And something that I liked very much too, is that when the gallery is closed during night, there is a projector that is showing outside the gallery window images of my paintings. So people that are in all those fancy restaurants around might see what kind of work is in the gallery and come back during working hours.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Next Solo: in DUBLIN!!!

Monday, May 11, 2009

Mother's Day 2009

My first Mother day in Britain was lovely. Many Flowers, a beautiful promenade around a "sunny" London including Camden Town and the canal and of course many hugs of my children... I decided to post a very old pic when they were my babies... definitively the actual picture is happier :)

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Dublin... Painting 1

The opening of my Solo Exhibition in Dublin will take place on May 21st, 2009. The Gallery is doing almost everything... I have only sent a press essay to Irish Arts Review Magazine and of course I cannot avoid being anxious, because this exhibition means so much for me. Since the first time I exhibit in Ireland my goal was Dublin... due to many reasons but the main one is that a part of my roots come from that small and enchanting European capital.Thus I decided to start showing the paintings I will exhibit there. This one is called: "First Day", because the day I arrived in Cill Rialaig was at the middle of the night, I was exhausted after have driving more than 8 hours and being besides lost in the dark of the forest. That day I could hardly see anything because the cottage was surrounded by fog, and I was very afraid of being so far away from everything and maybe quite isolated for the next 6 weeks.